The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1887-01-01
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A"nnn 10 d 6looV EollBlOuo T0VlV8l IN
Canada
THE cholera epidemic in Buenos Ayres is
on the decline.
The lord mayors dinner in London this
year cost 8, 900.
A New YORK bride, few days ago, had
ten bridesmaids
TEE holiday trade is immense and shows
plentitude Of cash.
IT cost New York City $4,000 to convict
Alderpan McQuade.
IT looks as if Washington and Montana
might be admitted as States.
LANeTRY intends endowing home for
INDECENT respectable women.
MR.. JONES, of Waterloo, Kan, has named
his thirteenth son Chestnut Jones'
ENGLISH professional beauties are not at.
tracting much attention at present.
SECRETARY LAMAR thinks Lowell the best
master OF pure English now living.
AMERICA Is exporting plum-pudding to
England in considerable quantities.
The trouble between the Knights Of La.
Dor and Trades Unions is increasing.
ST. PAUL has invested this year in new
buildings $965S692. That looks healthy.
A CONGRESSIONAL funeral now-a-days
costs the Government from 5000 to $15,-
900.
The trip from Deadwood, Oak, to New
York can now be made in three days and
half.
HE Sultan of Turkey, like the Gear Of
Russia, is in constant dread Of assassina-
| ton.
LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is q clever
pianist, and often plays at charity con.
certs.
THE U. =. Grand Jury in st. Louis found
| seventy-two indictments for election
| frauds
| HERRING from Eastport, Me-, go all over
| the United States as the genuine imported
sardines.
CONGRESSMAN Hoee, of West Virginia,
is the youngest member Of the next Nation
| al House.
| ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND persons are en-
ployed in making clothing in New York
and vicinity.
THE Indian prisoners occupy 127 tents
upon the ramparts of old Fort Marion, st.
Augustine, Fla.
The advance in the price of pig iron is
being followed by advances in various lines
Of manufacture.
| IN South Carolina there is no divorce
law, and the marriage relation can only be
severed by death.
IONA COUNTY (Mich.) boasts Of boy
only eighteen years old who is six feet
eleven inches tall.
| JAY GOULD has rented pew in DR.. John
r. Paxton's church. on Forty second street,
New York, for 81, 800 year.
Or seventy-three important towns in Col
orado, twelve are above 5000 feet and ten
above 10000 feet above sea level.
A SINGLE sale Of wheat was recently
made in Tahoma County, Cal, the money
payment involved being s25N00O.
EX-SENATOR THURMAN is seventy two
years old, worth 10000, and frankly ad.
mits that he would like to be President.
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL has received from
Queen Victoria grant of $500 in recogni.
ton Of her services to workingwomen.
MRS. CLEVELAND promises to favor the
reform movement which asks ladies' to
remove their hats on entering theater.
DAKOTA wants women and is getting them
pretty fast. Statistics show that the birth
proportion Is about three girls to one boy
THE Russian Minister at Washington is
allowed $4,000 year by his Government
for the purpose Of giving entertainments.
The married men of Holly, Mich, are to
play match game Of base ball with the
women Of that town who want to get mar
ried.
MORE than fifty colored men hold clerk
ships in the departments at Washington
at salaries ranging from 81 900 to 81, 700 per
annum.
SENATOR MORRILL,, of Vermont, seventy
six years old, is the oldest man in the Sen.
ate. Payne, of Ohio, is seven months
younger.
The peppermint, spearmint, tansy and
wormw0od oil crops of st. Joseph and
Cass County, Mich, amount this season to
$4,000 pounds.
A CHECK for one cent was drawn in New
York by the Government in favor Of an
importer who had paid excess Of duty to
that extent.
To enable the Judge to pass on the charge
against John Dillon without recourse to q
jury they went back to statute as old as
Edward III.
IT is stated that Krupp has an order
from Russia for large number Of forty
three-ton guns to be delivered next spring
at Sebastopol.
A HABIT Of chewing tea leaves brought on
attacks resembling delirium tremens in q
girl whose case is reported in London
! medical journal.
A DOCUMENT has been presented to the
King Of Sweden containing 1864 sigma
J lures to o petition for the suppression OF
obscene literature.
NATURAL gas conducted from its source
in Mexican County, Pa, to Buffalo, in an
eight-inch pipe, travelled at the speed Of
ninety miles an hour.
MAGGIE MITCHELL's real estate has
doubled itself in value the past ten years
J and the popular actress is said to be worth
half million dollars.
!. F.W. KENNIE, of San Francisco, say:
! that city has three hundred young womor
! who ere heiresses to $4,000 or more each
. and all are unmarried.
The sweetest and best favored pork il
] the world is produced on the Island of Ma
{ deira. The hogs there subsist mainly OF
, fruits, nuts, grass and roots.
CAPTAIN W. McMIcKEN, of the Cunart
J steamer Umbria, completed his 799th tril
across the Atlantic when his vessel arrivet
! in New York few DAYS ago.
II is no longer regarded as proper in pc
! lite circles to say person has wrinkle,
! face. The correct thing is to speak of
, person with corduroy countenance.
A BATH containing twenty grains SUI
} phate Of copper per fitre Of wster will pre-
serye ropes used for scaftolding purpose
from rot and from animal parasites. Sosl